San Francisco to Samoa - Home Movies

Duration: 400 ft.

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940

Complete Record: Family Home Movies of what appears to be weekend or vacation outings. Couple walks around in a park garden. Family : father, mother, and young child go into Bethel Temple, their church. they pose outside Side of the road and down a hill, a car is overturned from a car accident. People look on in amazement as it on its side. Older folks pose in front of Jesus saves cross, then another couple joins them and hugs. Shots of the San Francisco bay and the bay bridge, roads onto the bridge and POV shots from inside car going across the bridge. Shots of docks and shipping areas. Large cruse ship and people going aboard. People go onto a large ship in the docks for a cruse or tour. shots of luggage being loaded, dock workers loading and hoisting luggage into the storage part of the ship. The stairs are removed, people wave good-bye and the boat pulls away. Shot of tug boat as it sends out the ship into the bay. Shots from boat of going under bay bridge. Shots of other vessels in the water, Alcatraz island, Angel Island and then under the Golden Gate Bridge out into the Pacific Ocean. Dusk and dark shots of California coastal houses, landscape and fisherman. Morning shots of another harbor, this one being Samoa. Boats cruse around the harbor taking people ashore. Sailors and military men abound. Military ship in the harbor. Shots from the boat to the awaiting people on the docks. People in a row boat. Samoan musical group consisting primarily of brass instruments greets the new arrivals. Workers dock the boat and raise the steps for passengers to depart the ship. Street shots of natives, children, arts and crafts for sale. Baskets, necklaces, and pottery. The ship Marine Phoenix of Portland Oregon departs for the sea.